Art walk Onehunga

04/05/2023 - 05/04/2025
12am - 12am

PAST ACTIVITY
Onehunga
Placemaking Activities
Urban regeneration

Wheke Fortress - 172 Trafalger Street
Laka - 169 Onehunga Mall
The Factory Theatre - 80 Onehunga Mall
Dolphin Theatre - 12 Spring Road
Siloh Creative Life Centre - 117 Arthur Street

Take a walk in Onehunga, visit creative spaces, see performances and exhibitions, kōrero with local artists, and grab yourself some kai and art along the way.

Art Walk Onehunga is a friendly, grass roots gallery-crawl in one of the busiest urban neighbourhoods in Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland.

Founded by the local community creative spaces Wheke Fortress, LAKA and The Factory Theatre, Art Walk Onehunga are a regular series of hikoi that allow people to see the neighbourhood in technicolour.

The Art Walk allow you to take in a variety of creative spaces, with performances and exhibitions on offer for you to drop-in and enjoy as part of a single event. The kaupapa is to showcase the wide selection of creative talent and hidden gems happening in your backyard, while bringing artists, people, and local businesses closer together.

Wheke Fortress

Wheke Fortress is a creative home for queer Māori and Pacific Islander artists and community organizers. Wheke is the homebase for boutique animation studio, Studio Ki’I Pili, Coconut Clouds recording studio, production house Kuini Qontrol, and regularly exhibits local artists in the gallery space. It is a kaupapa-led and informed space that uplifts the voices, sounds, and visual creations of Indigenous Pacific artists, creatives, and thinkers.

Wheke Fortress

Laka

LAKA is a house for artists, growers, makers and practitioners, to celebrate our relationship with Earth.

“Here we make, we learn, we care for, we collect and we share – koloa, mesina, taonga, treasure - from Aotearoa and Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.”

Laka

The Factory Theatre

The Factory Theatre is Onehunga's newest black box performance space - facilitated by He Waka Eke Noa Charitable Trust, they are committed to removing barriers to access arts spaces and events.

The Factory Theatre can support all manner of artistic endeavours from drama, dance, circus (including aerial works), comedy, improv and much more.

Factory Theatre

Art Walk venues

Venues map

Placemaking initiatives

Through our Placemaking function, the Auckland Urban Development Office works with and supports local organisations, residents, and businesses on initiatives that help grow and develop neighbourhoods as places people want to live, work and play.

Placemaking is designed to get people thinking about how they want to live in their community, through different types of events and activations that embrace the uniqueness of that community.

The work complements our urban regeneration programmes that encourages greater investment and development in homes, shops, and businesses in suitable neighbourhoods around the city.

As the regeneration proceeds, especially during construction periods, placemaking events and activities continue to draw people into these areas to maintain and grow community life and business patronage.